"Books can still wield the magic powers of Michael Scott, or Faustus, or Prospero. Eyes that never read, remain blind to the phantom dead and to the unseen presences that walk the earth—cannot call up the past world to redress the troubled balance of the present—cannot move, like Persephone, both amid the fleeting beauty of the living spring and among the ghostly meadows of eternal asphodel."
F. L. Lucas, "Of Books", in The Greatest Problem, and Other Essays (New York: Macmillan, 1961), p. 177.
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